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NASA is preparing for a grounded voltage test of its all-electric X-57 Maxwell airplane, which will prepare the team for actual test flights.
Advanced Transport

NASA Is Testing an All-Electric Airplane

"What they’re learning in this test, they’ll take with them into the control room for first flight."

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers in New Zealand have discovered how three species of sharks can glow in the dark well below the surface of the ocean.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Glow-in-the-Dark Sharks

An amazing discovery: the first glowing sharks known to science.

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX is getting ready to send the next batch of astronauts to the International Space Station on April 20 as part of its Crew-2 mission.
SpaceX

SpaceX Preparing Third Launch of Astronauts to Space Station

For the first time, two Crew Dragon capsules will be docked to the ISS at the same time.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists have confirmed the existence of a gigantic 1,000 kilometer-across hurricane swirling hundreds of kilometers above the North Pole.
Off-World

Scientists Observe Eight-Hour “Space Plasma Hurricane”

"Until now, it was uncertain that space plasma hurricanes even existed."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are calling on NASA to rename the James Webb Space Telescope due to Webb's extended legacy and questionable human rights record.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Hated Gay People. Why Are We Naming a Telescope After Him?

Scientists are not happy.

By Dan Robitzski

Simon Kindleysides, who's paralyzed from the waist down, walked over 100 miles in a powered exoskeleton during February to raise money for the NHS.
RX and Medicine

Paralyzed Man Walks More Than 100 Miles in Powered Exoskeleton

He walked as far as the suit's battery would allow every day.

By Dan Robitzski

A company Brain Scientific is developing an "e-tattoo" that can be injected under the skin in epilepsy patients and scan their brains for looming seizures.
Prosthetics and Devices

This Startup Wants to Tattoo Brain-Reading Electrodes on Your Skull

Thought you'd never get a head tattoo? Think again.

By Dan Robitzski

Plastic surgeon Scott Green signed into a courtroom Zoom proceeding to fight a traffic violation while he was operating on a patient.
Developments

Surgeon Contests Traffic Ticket While Operating on Patient

The judge, over Zoom, was shocked.

By Dan Robitzski

Startup Unveils Rocket Capable of Sending Humans to Space
Off-World

Startup Unveils Rocket Capable of Sending Humans to Space

They say it can travel to Mars or even Venus.

By Victor Tangermann

The British military is running drills and combat exercises in virtual reality, using simulations that run on the Unreal Engine.
Virtual Reality

British Soldiers Training for Combat in Virtual Reality

They're running military drills on Oculus headsets.

By Dan Robitzski

Health officials in the UK are trying to get in touch with an individual who was infected with a new variant of the virus that originated in Brazil.
Developments

Officials Hunting For Missing Person Infected With New COVID Strain

"We need to find them as soon as possible."

By Victor Tangermann

Semi-retired WWE star Triple H publicly challenged scrawny billionaire Elon Musk to a fight on Mars.
Off-World

Pro Wrestler Challenges Elon Musk to Fight

"He’s a guy that sort of revolutionized the electric car all because he wanted to fly rockets to Mars. Big deal."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA embedded a secret code on the parachute of the Perseverance Mars rover to help inspire others. Here's exactly what it says.
Mars

All the Easter Eggs NASA Engineers Left on the Mars Rover

Here's what it — and all the other Easter Eggs they left — said.

By Tony Ho Tran

Kelley Aerospace has developed a combat drone capable of reaching supersonic speeds — and they already have 100 pre-orders for it.
Drones

Three Words: Supersonic. Combat. Drones.

Skynet in the sky, basically.

By Tony Ho Tran

The rats that survive eradication attempts could have sickly offspring — or they could produce "super rats" that are even harder to kill.
Studies

Study: Social Media Turns Us Into Hungry Rats Basically

We're all stuck in a digital "Skinner Box," researchers say.

By Tony Ho Tran

A team at Carnegie Mellon University has released an app that they say can determine whether you likely have COVID-19 — just by listening to your voice.
Developments

U.S. COVID Case Decline Has Stalled, Researchers Warn

“Now is not the time to relax restrictions.”

By Tony Ho Tran

Nevada's governor wants to establish innovation zones that'll give tech companies the ability to establish laws—and one crypto frim is interested.
Blockchain

Nevada Just Letting a Crypto Firm Run Entire Town as “Innovation Zone” (?!?)

The proposal will give tech companies power to create their own laws. Which, uhh.

By Tony Ho Tran

The Pentagon is considering launching a network of satellites that would be able to identify and track any acts of aggression in outer space.
Space

Study: The US Needs To Build More Space Weapons

The rise of anti-satellite weapons means we need more defenses to guard against threats.

By Tony Ho Tran

Zoom, the increasingly-popular video conferencing program, has extremely flawed cybersecurity in place. Companies like SpaceX have already banned it.
Studies

Study: “Zoom Fatigue” Exists—and It Totally Sucks

Even more, there are ways to prevent it — or at least mitigate its damage.

By Tony Ho Tran

For the first time ever, researchers were able to catch space-time crystals on camera using a transmission X-ray microscope.
Science & Energy

A Breakthrough: Actual Video of a Time Crystal

Woah.

By Victor Tangermann